How to Use elementary school in a Sentence

elementary school

noun
  • Two elementary schools had merged and, at the time, the specter of other closures loomed.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • More back to school news:Some elementary schools end in fifth grade, some in eighth.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2024
  • In the fall, the sisters will start at a new elementary school in the Parma school district.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Matter of fact, most of us in my elementary school had lunch cards.
    Udonis Haslem, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But the district has to figure out what to do about the district’s many elementary schools.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In the worst school shooting last year, 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
    Scott McFetridge, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Reid pointed out that the area elementary school, Oakton, has the highest rates of poverty in the city.
    Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Yoo first tasted the cake in elementary school in Queens, on a day students were asked to bring in a dish from their heritage.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • By the time Hansen was in elementary school, in the ’70s, both products were ubiquitous.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
  • Dozens of protesters lined the road leading to the elementary school where Biden spoke.
    Akayla Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Winds of 160 miles per hour destroyed an elementary school and ripped high-school bleachers from the ground.
    Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Since my elementary school days, movement has become a source of joy in my life.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The school opens at a time when many Catholic elementary schools across the nation are declining.
    Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024
  • By the end of elementary school, to Dalton’s relief, the stutter had faded away.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The last school the oldest boy, 15, attended was an elementary school, Vaughn said.
    Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Biden has said the law passed last year after a deadly mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school didn’t go far enough.
    Colleen Long and Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But at least for a while, those steps into her elementary school marked a harder life, not a better one.
    A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, Parents, 18 Jan. 2024
  • At an elementary school in New Taipei City, the city that surrounds Taipei, voters young and old came early despite the rain.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Broward County, Florida is in the midst of a measles outbreak in an elementary school.
    Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And just this past week, three 9-year-olds and three adults were shot and killed at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Chron, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Naloxone is not yet in the district's elementary schools.
    The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse’s office of his elementary school in Highland, N.Y., and asked for some Vaseline.
    Kristi Berner, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That program became the first elementary school cricket league in the U.S.
    Shanelle Kaul, CBS News, 8 June 2024
  • Now the producer is giving kids in the country a jump on life by funding an elementary school near Guatemala City.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But the worst of the congestion seems to be building north of Route 181, where new subdivisions have popped up and a new elementary school opened this year.
    John Sharp | , al, 14 Apr. 2023
  • At a local elementary school the reptile took up residence and claimed the area in one parking spot.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Its three founders, who have known each other since elementary school, are figuring out what to do with it next.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 May 2024
  • The mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for felony offenses.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And an outbreak at an elementary school in Florida’s Broward County led a lawmaker to call for a public health emergency.
    Deidre McPhillips and Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In elementary school, Williams became involved with music programs, then singing and performing at church.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2024

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